Repent, or be doomed, is the Jeremiah-style message of the Archbishop of Canterbury over our financial excesses. I can think of no person better suited to deliver it.

See the news story at Times Online. We were 'intimidated by expertise', Dr Rowan Williams said when asked by Jeremy Paxman why the Church of England had not spoken out earlier on how finance appeared to be operating, and what it seemed to be generating in terms of wealth rather than community.

Our Archbishop is at last fulfilling his prophetic potential. If I wasn't heading of this afternoon to venerate the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux, after writing about their tour of Britain for Times Online, I'd be tempted to don a sandwich board and go and stand outside Lambeth Palace in support.


There is something obscene about watching the bonus culture continue while so many, even in the City, are warning that we've not seen the worse of it yet.